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DÜRER, Albrecht: Head of a Stag

🖼 Head of a Stag, c. 1503
Watercolour on paper
227 × 160 cm
Bayonne, France

Delicate watercolor renders a stag's head in precise detail, capturing individual hairs and antler texture with scientific observation. Dürer's study exemplifies Renaissance naturalism, blending artistic mastery with the emerging scientific study of animal anatomy that defined Northern European art.

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